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Larry Steckel <lorenzoscribe@hotmail.com> posted on autox:
>While watching the cars dodge the pylons and the snowflakes at the event
>Sunday, (Two snow events in one year. This is getting old.) an old club
>member stopped past to visit. He suggested that he would work me an
>attractive deal on his 1965 Triumph Spitfire Mark 2.
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>This was his autocross car, and it won a lot of trophies in his hands. I
>guess it would fall into F Street Prepared with the tweaks he had done on
>it. The car has been sitting in his heated garage for years. He never
>bothered with paint, so it doesn't look pretty, but I know it isn't a rust
>bucket. The car would come with a completely rebuilt motor waiting to go
>into the engine bay. And 1147 cc. I think.
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>I'm attracted to it because it is only about 1500 lbs. soaking wet, doesn't
>have a computer, or air bags,or emmissions controls, or fuel injection, or
5
>mph bumpers. If I remember correctly, it doesn't even have a heater because
>they were optional at the time.
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>I solicit opinions from the assembled wisdon of the Team. Do you think
this
>old crock could be made to be competitive without bankrupting me?
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